Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), seemingly harmless compounds, are the real culprits, as experts claimed that they could damage ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

In the 1980s, scientists found that chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol cans and refrigerators were destroying stratospheric ...

Jonathan Shanklin, a meteorologist and an emeritus fellow for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helped discover the hole in the ozone layer in 1985 along with Joe Farman and Brian G. Gardiner.

Jonathan Shanklin, one of the ozone hole's original discoverers, using a Dobson spectrophotometer inside the Faraday Station ...

The 1985 discovery identified a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer over our southernmost continent, triggering immediate ...

Located in the stratosphere, the ozone layer blocks potentially harmful ultraviolet energy from reaching our planet's surface. What's the status of the hole discovered 40 years ago?

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, ...

This is the southernmost post office in the world. (Photo:UKAHT) Port Lockroy in the Antarctic is the southernmost post office in the world, affectionately known as the Penguin Post Office.

This week, the world will mark the 40th anniversary of a moment that changed the course of history: the publication in Nature ...